mindfaQ's Forum Posts

  • So your reply was not related to the tilemap object, thus not relevant to this topic. Okay.

  • C-7: how to do that with the tilemap plugin? (can't really simulate pixel rounding just for the tilemap and tiles are strictly sized according to tile width and height)

  • Sometimes TV or Dota 2 streams on the side.

    If I listen to music, it can be different kinds though:

    • Soundtracks, Musicals (Inception, Social Network, Portal 2, Les Miserables, Mathilda)
    • Ambient/Instrumental (tipp: A Winged Victory for the Sullen - A Winged Victory for the Sullen, very calming; Apparat, The Flashbulb, Air, R?yksopp)
    • electro / house / electro swing / synth pop / goa / trance (examples: Daft Punk, Crystal Castles, Cut Copy, Parov Stelar, Vangelis)
    • Chiptunes, 8bitsongs (old demoscene stuff, Anamanaguchi, She, Slagsmalsklubben)
    • singer songwriting, Alternative (examples: The XX, Miike Snow)

    sometimes I want calming music, but often I don't mind some energetic music, so that's what runs the most

  • In event sheet 2 there is no tokenat, but now I see what you meant.

    Encapsule the tokenat expression with int() or float(). This will convert the string "0" to the number 0 (int will round to whole numbers, float will keep decimals)

  • It is probably better to just use a normal font installed on the system (or webfonts if you wanna put up with the load time every time). At least you can be sure that all characters will display. Sure, you can also only use Hiragana, Katakana and write everything with it like japanese kids would that just have begun learning the language, but I don't think it is optimal. Not to mention that that won't work for languages like Chinese or Korean.

    What's btw the best way to suggest Construct 2 to use fonts like in html.

    For example how to implement something like this:

    font-family:"?????? Pro W3", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro",Osaka, "????", Meiryo, "MS P????", "MS PGothic", sans-serif;

    (this list could probably be expanded by fonts installed on android/ios that support kanji)

  • Because Array.At(0) is 0 when you set text 2. You set array.at(0) to 5 only after that.

  • Okay thanks. I'm just worrying about performance, but maybe invisible/hidden sprites don't use up that much performance?

  • I just noticed my error, used c2_fix exe instead of start.bat. Sorry for the commotion ^^. Works like a charm as well.

    edit: no, it doesn't (I tested it on another pc where it worked, but now back to the first PC it is still not working even when I use start.bat)

  • Isometric tiles math.

    Yeah, but how to apply the path finding plugin to it. Is it necessary to create an invisible sprite + invisble obstacles in non-isometric view to the screen, run the pathfinding for the sprite and then translate the movement from the invisible sprite to the real unit we are supposed to see in isometric view? (this is for the case when someone wants the cell size of the grid to be the same as the tile size, so that basically only walking straight along the isometric tiles is allowed).

  • Check the origin of your alien sprite ;)

  • find(text.text,"yourword")

  • That's like wondering why something costs less in shop A than shop B, when shop A has a sales action - you can see that all the time.

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  • Hmm the fix only opens Construct 2 for me and starts the open file dialog.

    So I've created my own bugfix.

    What you need:

    autohotkey.com (free macro program)

    After you've installed authotkey:

    • rightclick in explorer -> new -> autohotkey script
    • name it how you want, remember the file location (for me it is D:\Games\Steam\construct2.ahk)
    • rightclick on the script, edit the script

    paste the following below the default first lines:

    <font color=blue><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">IfWinNotExist, Construct 2

    {

    run, steam://rungameid/227980

    WinWait Construct 2,, 120

    }

    WinActivate Construct 2

    WinWaitActive Construct 2

    sleep 1000

    send ^o

    sleep 400

    send %1%

    send {Enter}</font></font>

    • save it
    • open a text editor of your choice (like notepad)

    pase the following

    <font color=blue><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"D:\Games\Steam\construct2.ahk" %1</font></font>

    Note that D:\Games\Steam\construct2.ahk needs to be the location of your autohotkey script I told you to remember earlier.

    -Save it as something like construct2.bat

    • next time you want to open a .capx or .caproj, select "open with" and use the construct2.bat you've created.

    What it does:

    If Construct 2 is not open yet, it runs steam://rungameid/227980 (it is the command for steam to launch construct 2, you can find that out when you create a shortcut of the program on the desktop via steam). It waits at most 120 seconds for the Construct 2 to start.

    After that it sets the Construct 2 window as active (in foreground), opens the "open file" dialog, pastes the file location into the field and confirms it. If it is not working as expected for you, try to adjust the sleep lenghts.

    Hope it helps if someone wanted to do something like that for himself.

    If you want icons for your .capx-files in the explorer, look up Bat To Exe Converter and convert/compile the .bat into an .exe-file and set the icon file to one of those in the Construct 2 directory.

  • Okay thanks. I use Steam a lot, but still would have liked to use the the program outside of it.

  • Is the steam licence usable with the versions that can be downloaded over this site here? (copy over the license file to an existing normal installation and use it with that)